Apple Macintosh: Difference between revisions

* [[The Red Mage]]: Arguably software architect Andy Hertzfeld, whose business card literally read "Software Wizard" and who was responsible for numerous diverse ideas, as well as much of the Toolbox API.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Since Steve Jobs' return, Apple has been remarkably successful at doing this — blindsiding a reticent Avid with Final Cut Pro, dumping IBM's Power architecture for Intel when IBM couldn't deliver 64-bit laptop chips, and giving Adobe a [[Bring My Brown Pants|brown pants moment]] by banning Flash from iOS (leveraging the ubiquitousness of the iPhone and iPad to eventually get mobile Flash canned altogether). Most recently, they've been upping the pressure on Intel, with their iOS devices running on ARM architecture, and in-house builds of OS X apparently capable of doing the same.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The Mac, to the Xerox Alto and Star systems; Microsoft Windows, to the Mac; NextStep to the Mac, Mac OS X to NextStep.

** Windows in part was a ''direct'' sequel, because its inner workings and [[API]] were inspired by the Mac in a great deal. It still retains Pascal function calling conventions in its API, despite being written in C, as most Mac software, including the parts of the OS, was written in Pascal, and early versions of Winword and Excel were little more than the ports from the Mac, where they were born.